Transformations of the Adventure in Novels, Novellas and Dramas of the Early 20th Century (Mann, Musil, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler)

20世纪早期小说、中篇小说和戏剧中冒险的转变（Mann、Musil、Hofmannsthal、Schnitzler）

• 批准号: 392014007
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Inka Mülder-Bach
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department I - Germanistik, Komparatistik, Nordistik, Deutsch als Fremdsprache
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/392014007?language=en
• 关键词: Transformations; Adventure; Novels; Novellas; Dramas

The project intends to illuminate the significance of the narrative and experiential pattern of adventure in modern literature by focussing on German novels which either have become paradigms of the genre of the Bildungsroman or testify to an intense dialogue with its tradition. While the narrative of Bildung is generally considered to be a critique of the adventure, this project starts out from the observation that the relation is ambivalent and marked by repulsion as well as attraction. On the basis of the research of the first funding period which was devoted to Goethe’s "Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre" and Keller’s "Der grüne Heinrich", the second funding period will address the question of adventure in Thomas Mann’s "Der Zauberberg" and Robert Musil’s "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften". Whereas Goethe and Keller are interested in adventure as narrative pattern and genre of storytelling, Mann’s and Musil’s fascination with adventure is inseparable from the First World War. What is at stake in their novels is adventure as a mode of experience ('Erlebnis') and as epitome of an anti-bourgeois way of life. They seek to understand the desire for adventure which surfaced in the euphoria of the so-called 'Augusterlebnis' of 1914. At the same time, they engage in a dialogue with the genre of the Bildungsroman which, in their view, does not represent a counternarrative to adventure. Rather, they connect their own novels to the tradition of this genre precisely to the extent that the narrative of Bildung is compatible with the notion of adventure. The project will pay particular attention to Mann’s and Musil’s analyses of the relation between violence and amorous adventures, to the processes of regression and the dynamics of transgression which the narrative representation of these adventures involve, and to their social, cultural and psychological preconditions and implications. In addition, the project will follow a byway and explore the fin de siècle and pre-war discourse on adventures and adventurers, focussing on dramas and novellas by Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler which are based on the memoirs of the paradigmatic amorous adventurer Casanova. Like the ideology of war as an adventurous 'Erlebnis' the pre-war discourse on adventure is strongly influenced by contemporary philosophies of life. Precisely because of this common philosophical basis it can serve as a foil for highlighting the fundamental transformations which the concept of adventure underwent in the wake of the First World War.

该项目旨在通过聚焦于德国小说来阐明现代文学中冒险的叙事和体验模式的意义，这些小说要么已经成为成长小说体裁的典范，要么证明了与其传统的激烈对话。虽然《比尔登》的叙述通常被认为是对冒险的批判，但这个项目始于对这种关系的观察，这种关系是矛盾的，既有排斥又有吸引。在研究歌德的《威廉·梅斯特·莱雅尔》和凯勒的《海因里希》的第一个资助期的基础上，第二个资助期将解决托马斯·曼的《佐伯堡的探险》和罗伯特·穆西尔的《艾根查夫顿》中的冒险问题。歌德和凯勒喜欢冒险作为叙事模式和讲故事的体裁，而曼恩和穆西尔对冒险的着迷与第一次世界大战是分不开的。在他们的小说中，冒险是一种体验方式(埃莱布尼斯)，也是反资产阶级生活方式的缩影。他们试图理解1914年所谓的奥古斯特莱布尼斯人兴高采烈时出现的冒险欲望。与此同时，他们与成长小说体裁进行了对话，在他们看来，这并不代表冒险的对立面。相反，他们将自己的小说与这一流派的传统联系在一起，正是在某种程度上，比尔顿的叙事与冒险的概念兼容。该项目将特别关注曼恩和穆西尔对暴力和多情冒险之间的关系的分析，对这些冒险的叙事表现所涉及的倒退过程和越轨动态的分析，以及它们的社会、文化和心理前提条件和影响。此外，该项目将走一条小路，探索奇遇和战前关于冒险和冒险家的话语，重点是霍夫曼萨尔和施尼茨勒的戏剧和中篇小说，这些戏剧和中篇小说是根据典型的多情冒险家卡萨诺娃的回忆录改编的。就像把战争视为爱冒险的‘埃莱布尼斯人’一样，战前关于冒险的论述受到了当代生活哲学的强烈影响。正是由于这一共同的哲学基础，它可以作为衬托，突出第一次世界大战后冒险概念所经历的根本转变。